This is all about the organization that aims to transform the Illinois Democratic Party from within. PDI also exists to act as a bridging organization between Progressive groups throughout Illinois. It's time for a cohesive Progressive movement, and we intend to facilitate exactly that.

This week, negotiations are taking place behind closed doors to create the
TPP's Internet trap *criminalizing our day-to-day use of the Internet
through expensive fines.*1

You and over 80,000 others around the world pushed back by signing the
StopTheTrap.net petition. Yet the list of TPP lobbyists is also growing;
over 600 from telecom, media, and other conglomerates are privy to these
secret negotiations.2 *We need the entire pro-Internet community to push
back against the TPP's Internet trap.*

After citizens stood against big telecom and media conglomerates' attempts
to push through national laws that would crush free expression and
innovation online, their lobbyists decided to go behind closed doors
through the TPP. *It's an undemocratic, extreme attempt to take decisions
about the Internet out of your hands.*

But the pro-Internet community is taking the fight global as well. We've
assembled a powerful coalition of people and organizations—including
experts at Public Knowledge, Public Citizen, and the Electronic Frontier
Foundation—who are currently on the ground at meetings in San Diego. They
have committed to hand-deliver the StopTheTrap.net petition signatures to
leaders, but we need to give them the numbers to have influence.

The pro-Internet community is already *having an impact across borders.* In
the U.S., 130 members of Congress just signed a letter calling for secret
TPP documents to be made public;3 in Canada the largest federal opposition
party has come out against the TPP;4 rifts are also developing between
other signatory countries.5

If we work together we could all be part of a foundational achievement of
the global pro-Internet community: dismantling this Internet trap before it
gets set. Thanks for sharing through the links above.